Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky Furniture

Mid Century Modern Heywood Wakefield Crescendo Vanity with Mirror and Vanity Stool/Poof Offered is a Mid Century Modern Vanity with Mirror a...

Wonderful streamlined desk by Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky for Heywood Wakefield. The count was famous for his wonderfully stylized Industrial designs and worked with major automakers of the day like Auburn, Cord, Packard, Tucker and the White Truck Co. This desk features solid maple construction, versatile size and gorgeous streamlined lines! Some more info on Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky: Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky was born in Russia in 1901, the son of an Advisor to Tsar Nicholas II. Following the Russian revolution he escaped to the continent and began a career as an automobile designer emigrating to America in 1929. In America he designed many famous automobiles and his drawings of futuristic cars appeared in Esquire Magazine from 1934 on. In furniture he advocated streamline design as in the Bloomingdale’s Department Store furniture shown at the 1939-40 World’s Fair in New York. Outside automobiles and furniture, de Sakhnoffsky also created designs in the areas of aircraft design (Sabca), boat design (feather-Craft), Bike design (Murray), watch design (Gruen), and radio design (Emerson). This desk represents the perfect culmination of all of these influences and is one of the best examples of his 'streamline' furniture design aesthetic. Add to all of that the 1939 World's Fair connection and you have an extremely rare collector's piece that spans an almost infinite number of genres! Automotive designs by Sakhnoffsky: 1929 Cord l-29 Special Coupe 1934 Packard Twelve Model 1106 Sport Coupe & Runabout Speedster 1947 White Labatt Streamliner Delivery Truck 1938-41 American Austin Bantam Commander Gatti's 1937 International Harvester...

Heywood Wakefield solid maple desk with curved front drawers. Designed by a Count! Highly promoted in the 1950's as one of Heywood Wakefield's Designe...

This incredible example of Art Deco design is a collectible piece by the famous Russian-American industrial designer Count Alexis de Sakhoffsky who was internationally known for his ...

What a find. Offered is a vintage vanity and mirror designed by Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky for Heywood Wakefield's 'Crescendo' line. This pi...

What a find. Offered is a vintage tall chest/dresser designed by Alexis de Sakhnoffsky for Heywood Wakefield's 'Crescendo' line. It is made of birch...

Collectable and very functional solid wood desk made by Heywood Wakefield and designed by famous Russian-American industrial designer Count Alexis de Sakhoffsky internationally known...

If it appears this 1930s Art Moderne desk has a dashboard, that's by design... The design of renowned automotive designer/illustrator and 'master of streamlining', Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky. The count was famous for his wonderfully stylized Industrial designs and worked with major automakers of the day like Auburn, Cord, Packard, Tucker and the White Truck Co. With his design background and deep reverence for anything automotive, it is little surprise he would create a desk with a full car-like dashboard (complete with clock, barometer, thermometer, radio and glovebox!) In fact, the desk was patterned off of Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky's personal desk, which he designed for his office in New York. What makes this desk particularly significant, however, is the fact it is one of only two examples still known to exist and was first shown at Bloomingdale's 'Home of Tomorrow' display during the 1939 New York World's fair. The desk was manufactured in 1939 by the Red Lion Table Co. of Red Lion, PA. Interestingly, its sister company, Red Lion Cabinet Co, was responsible for the manufacture of all wooden Philco...

Heywood-Wakefield kneehole desk by Count Alexis de Sakhonoffsky in solid Maple. Two banks of drawers become the support columns for the large top which includes a full length drawer....